The 28th of February will go down as one of the days of Sam
Welsford life with the Australian track sensation claiming
team pursuit and scratch race world titles within the space of
an hour at the 2019 UCI Track World Championships in Pruszkow,
Poland.

After claiming the team pursuit world title smashing the world
record by nearly two seconds, there was little time for
Welsford to take it in as he was quickly back on the track in
the scratch race.

With the pace high throughout the 15 kilometre race Welsford
elected to conserve energy and recover from his heroic team
pursuit ride. With attacks continually chased down the plan
was working well for Welsford before Portugal's Rui Oliveira
stole a late march with around six laps to go. Quickly taking
half a lap on the field it looked to suddenly be a race for
silver.

Undeterred and with the pace still high Welsford took his
chase with just over a lap to go unleashing the power that
lead Australia to the team sprint title to chase down the
fading Portuguese rider and overhaul him the final metres.
Such was Welsford's speed he left the rest of the field in his
wake with time to celebrate across the line.